Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] from [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Payment of Wages Act allows employers to make it a condition of employment that new employees should be paid through a bank , but prohibits them from doing this with existing employees ( though of course individual existing employees can agree voluntarily to accept bank-account payment ) . |
| 2 | Many Italian banks are still hopelessly overstaffed and strict Italian labour laws prevent them from curing this handicap quickly . |
| 3 | My next bout of health problems prevented me from continuing this search , and I was forced to wait for the weather to become a little sunnier before taking the risk of venturing out . |
| 4 | If urgent circumstances prevent you from attending this course , please notify your own departmental training contact ( name below ) immediately . |
| 5 | The ‘ Glorious Revolution ’ prevented him from confirming this appointment , but it was confirmed by William of Orange . |
| 6 | We got on very well together and when after only two months with the company my immediate boss — the marketing manager , a sallow individual with a Solihull whine — suffered a perforated ulcer ( I could n't prevent myself from eidetiking this , the wall of his duodenum like a rusty car door , sharp flakes of oxidised tissue spearing into him ) , I got his job . |
| 7 | By contrast the white hole originates in a space-time singularity and the horizon does not prevent us from viewing this strange event . |
| 8 | For those of us who fret about ways in which modern technology distances us from understanding this programme was a revelation . |
| 9 | From my point of view , we had originally hoped to progress this proposal just over a year ago when spare money became available , but unfortunately , the bureaucratic process and conservatism of the people involved prevented us from doing this in time . |
| 10 | One analysis of the function of these duties is that they ensure that the directors of the company have sufficient discretion and flexibility to be able to manage the company efficiently , whilst precluding them from exercising this discretion contrary to the interests of the shareholders . |
| 11 | ‘ There are failsafes which should have stopped it from doing this ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't try to stop me from punishing this ingrate , Brien . |
| 13 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 14 | And maybe that was what had kept him from visiting this place these last five years : the knowledge that he could no longer share their unquestioning certainty . |